WHO/FAO/OIE Collaborating Centre for Reference & Research on Leptospirosis, Western Pacific Region, Health Support Services Agency, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia.
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2013 May;63(Pt 5):1859-1862. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.047324-0. Epub 2012 Sep 14.
The genus Leptospira currently comprises 16 named species. In addition, four unnamed hybridization groups were designated Leptospira genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5. These groups represent valid species-level taxa, but were not assigned names in the original description by Brenner et al. [Int J Syst Bacteriol 49, 839-858 (1999)]. To rectify this situation, it is proposed that Leptospira genomospecies 1, genomospecies 3, genomospecies 4 and genomospecies 5 should be classified as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively, with strains L. alstonii 79601(T) ( = ATCC BAA-2439(T)), L. vanthielii WaZ Holland(T) ( = ATCC 700522(T)), L. terpstrae LT 11-33(T) ( = ATCC 700639(T)) and L. yanagawae Sao Paulo(T) ( = ATCC 700523(T)) as the type strains. The type strains are also available from the culture collections of the WHO Collaborating Centres in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Brisbane, Australia.
目前，钩端螺旋体属包括 16 个已命名的种。此外，还指定了四个未命名的杂交群为钩端螺旋体基因组种 1、3、4 和 5。这些群体代表有效的种级分类单元，但在 Brenner 等人的原始描述中未被命名。[国际系统与进化细菌学杂志 49, 839-858 (1999)]。为了纠正这种情况，建议将钩端螺旋体基因组种 1、基因组种 3、基因组种 4 和基因组种 5分别归类为 Leptospira alstonii sp. nov.、Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov.、Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. 和 Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov.，相应的模式菌株为 L. alstonii 79601(T)（ = ATCC BAA-2439(T)）、L. vanthielii WaZ Holland(T)（ = ATCC 700522(T)）、L. terpstrae LT 11-33(T)（ = ATCC 700639(T)）和 L. yanagawae Sao Paulo(T)（ = ATCC 700523(T)）。这些模式菌株也可从荷兰阿姆斯特丹和澳大利亚布里斯班的世界卫生组织合作中心的培养物收藏中获得。
